Milo Yiannopoulos is in ICE custody facing a final removal order, sources say
Washington — Far-right political commentator and deportation advocate Milo Yiannopoulos is currently in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody facing a final order of removal, according to U.S. officials and agency records.
Yiannopoulos, who is British, was apprehended in the New Orleans area and is being held in a Louisiana ICE holding facility, the U.S. officials said.
Reports indicate Yiannopoulos was in New Orleans ahead of a concert where the artist formerly known as Kanye West was scheduled to perform Friday night. TMZ first reported Yiannopoulos' status.
CBS News has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security and ICE for additional details and the basis for his apprehension.
Yiannopoulos has done work for the political and corporate ambitions of West, who's now known as Ye.
Yiannopoulos, a poster of racist rhetoric, has been a supporter of ICE's immigration enforcement in the past.
"California needs ICE checkpoints at supermarket entrances, gas stations, strip malls, intersections and government buildings, with on the spot deportation for anyone who can't prove they are in the US legally," he posted on social media in June 2025.
"Total legal immunity for ICE agents when they're on duty," he wrote in September 2025.
"There is one concrete thing we must insist on this administration delivering," he wrote in June 2025. "It matters a lot more than debts measured in imaginary money. We have got to deport millions and millions of people. Without that, nothing else matters."
